by Nora Roberts
First published 2024
Sonya MacTavish inherits a massive Victorian house on the Maine coast. Strange sounds fill the nights. Footsteps echo through empty halls. Doors slam shut without explanation. Music plays from nowhere. She finds portraits of brides scattered throughout the rooms. In her dreams, Sonya glimpses scenes from the past. She begins having visions of an antique mirror that seems to call to her. The mirror holds dark secrets about her family. One night the mirror materializes before her. Sonya steps through the glass and travels back in time. She witnesses a bride's murder on her wedding day. A gold ring is torn from the victim's finger. This same brutal scene repeats across the centuries. Sonya realizes she has inherited more than a house. She must solve this puzzle and break the curse that has trapped these women in death.
Genres: romance, historical-fiction, suspense, mystery, paranormal, gothic
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: curse, family-secrets, time-travel, wedding
Setting: Maine
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century
435 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: death, murder, violence